Hail in Dakota Ridge, CO on July 26, 2022
Radar-estimated up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) over Dakota Ridge between 5:07 PM and 5:13 PM, from 3 separate radar hail signatures inside the town. No spotter or NOAA ground report was filed inside the town that day, which is common: most hail falls where nobody is measuring it.
What ping-pong ball-size hail does to a roof
Hail in this range commonly bruises asphalt shingles and knocks off the protective granules. The roof may look fine from the street and still have lost years of life; soft metals like vents and gutters usually show the dents first. Radar describes the storm, not your shingles: the only way to know what a particular roof took is an inspection. Most homeowner policies set a deadline for reporting storm damage, so check your policy.
Every home inside a storm's radar footprint, scored by roof age, material and hail history, sold to a few roofers only so you are not the twentieth truck on the street.
Other Colorado towns hit on July 26
Other hail days in Dakota Ridge
- August 15, 2026radar up to 2.5" (tennis ball size)
- June 24, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 1 report
- April 26, 2024radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- July 8, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size) · 1 report
- June 29, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- June 22, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size) · 2 reports
- June 12, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
Radar sizes are estimates from NEXRAD hail signatures (NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory) for the largest stones in a storm cell, not a measurement at any one home. Ground reports are National Weather Service local storm reports and the NOAA Storm Events Database, as filed. Town-level data only; this page shows no addresses and no homeowner information.